The lambs may not have any speaking parts, dance or lip-sync, but they fulfill a very important role in the clip for the hottest song of the summer.
According to Thicke, video director Diane Martel, deserves the casting credit.
"She had it all planned out," Thicke said about Martel during a telephone interview with Yahoo! Music. "She had pictures. She had a mood board of all these types of images she wanted to try that day."
Thicke believes Martel, who has directed more than 100 music videos including Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop," Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" and Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover," used the lambs to add barnyard pizazz to the video.
"I actually don't know where Diane got that idea from," Thicke said. "It maybe had something to do with the song having a little bit of a country vibe."
Country? Feels more like a hokey, organ interpretation of Marin Gaye's 1977 No. 1 party anthem "Got To Give It Up," but maybe Thicke has a point.
"It's got a little bit of a two-step line dance vibe," he added. "So [Diane] just got a banjo and a bale of hay and told the girl to take her clothes off, and it was really strange but it worked out in the end."
Though farm animals typically are not hired as extras for pop music videos, Thicke said he didn't freak out when they arrived on set. It actually made perfect sense to him.
"I have a very similar sense of humor," he said. "Immediately, I thought it was hilarious and loved it and thought it looked great."
Thicke was amused by the concept of hipsters and semi-nude models dancing and singing with lambs. "Pharrell even says 'I know you want it' to the lamb," he said, quoting one of the song's lyrics. "He says, 'I know you're a good girl' to the lamb's face. There's so many little things in that video that some people don't pick up on. It's hilarious. It's wonderful."
This is especially the case for the unrated version of the video in which the models appear topless. Thicke said his father, Alan Thicke – who played the father on 1980s sitcom Growing Pains – nearly missed one of the video's main focal points – his son.
"I think my dad's reaction to the video the first time he saw it was, Were you even in that? Didn’t even see you in that?" Thicke jokes, noting that his father was clearly distracted by short's beautiful women.
His mother, Gloria Loring, a singer and former Days Of Our Lives actress, wasn't fazed by the nudity in the unrated version. "When I showed my mom she very politely said, 'That's very nice,'" he said. "'That's very fun.'"
There's just one awkward moment in the video. During a scene, a model uses an oversized lighter to lights a cigarette for Thicke. He takes a puff and blows the smoke directly in her face. She appears annoyed.
Thicke said it wasn't an impromptu moment. "I believe Diane staged that," he said. "We had something where I was just going to be smoking next to hear. Then Diane did – like she did all day – said 'Blow some smoke in her face. Then, you cough.' It was all her mad genius."
The subtle, yet brilliant video is up for three MTV Video Music Awards, video of year, best male video and best collaboration. There's no way Thicke going home without at least one Moonman statue.
The MTV VMAs air on August 25 at 9 p.m. "Blurred Lines" is the lead and title track from Thicke's sixth album due out on July 30
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A few stars of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" video haven't received their fair share of the limelight.
The lambs may not have any speaking parts, dance or lip-sync, but they fulfill a very important role in the clip for the hottest song of the summer.According to Thicke, video director Diane Martel, deserves the casting credit.
[Related: Complete MTV Video Music Awards Nominees List]
"She had it all planned out," Thicke said about Martel during a telephone interview with Yahoo! Music. "She had pictures. She had a mood board of all these types of images she wanted to try that day."
Thicke believes Martel, who has directed more than 100 music videos including Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop," Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" and Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover," used the lambs to add barnyard pizazz to the video.
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Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ video has been criticised for demeaning and objectifying women, but now performance artists have made their own parodies in response to one of the most talked about videos of the year.
‘Robin Thicke “Blurred Lines” Sexy Boys’ by Seattle-based ‘boylesque’ troupe Mod Carousel have created their own take on the video by reversing gender roles to show naked men dancing around fully-dressed women in suits.
They say: “We made this video specifically to show a spectrum of sexuality as well as present both women and men in a positive light, one where objectifying men is more than alright and where women can be strong and sexy without negative repercussions.”
‘Blurred Lines Parody- #Douche’ by stand-up comedienne Melinda Hughes features the lyric ‘douchebag’ in place of the original ‘blurred lines’.
The video imitates the implied meaning of Thicke’s original song, with the comedienne telling the naked man dancing around her that she’s tired of his sexual advances.
‘Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines Parody “Tanned Lines”’ by MadMoni tackles gender stereotypes in a different way by highlighting the pressure men face to live up to an ideal body shape.
A pale, scrawny boy with terrible tan lines becomes the subject of the video as he is ridiculed by other muscly men and the two female leads who take on the role of Thicke.
‘Robin Thicke “Blurred Lines” parody- Cougars’ by Fitzy and Wippa reverses the gender roles in Thicke’s original videos by making men the object of desire in the eyes of the older female.
The video by the Australian comedy duo parodies the stereotypical cougar dressed like mutton dressed as lamb, trying to get her claws on a younger man.
Their take on Thicke’s lyrics include: “She will destroy your liver/ She’ll cough you up on Twitter,” and “I know you want it, but you’re older than Halley’s comet.”
‘Robin Thicke “Blurred Lines” Sexy Boys’ by Seattle-based ‘boylesque’ troupe Mod Carousel have created their own take on the video by reversing gender roles to show naked men dancing around fully-dressed women in suits.
They say: “We made this video specifically to show a spectrum of sexuality as well as present both women and men in a positive light, one where objectifying men is more than alright and where women can be strong and sexy without negative repercussions.”
‘Blurred Lines Parody- #Douche’ by stand-up comedienne Melinda Hughes features the lyric ‘douchebag’ in place of the original ‘blurred lines’.
The video imitates the implied meaning of Thicke’s original song, with the comedienne telling the naked man dancing around her that she’s tired of his sexual advances.
‘Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines Parody “Tanned Lines”’ by MadMoni tackles gender stereotypes in a different way by highlighting the pressure men face to live up to an ideal body shape.
A pale, scrawny boy with terrible tan lines becomes the subject of the video as he is ridiculed by other muscly men and the two female leads who take on the role of Thicke.
‘Robin Thicke “Blurred Lines” parody- Cougars’ by Fitzy and Wippa reverses the gender roles in Thicke’s original videos by making men the object of desire in the eyes of the older female.
The video by the Australian comedy duo parodies the stereotypical cougar dressed like mutton dressed as lamb, trying to get her claws on a younger man.
Their take on Thicke’s lyrics include: “She will destroy your liver/ She’ll cough you up on Twitter,” and “I know you want it, but you’re older than Halley’s comet.”
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